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Kiva Is Not Quite What It Seems | David Roodman&#039;s Microfinance Open Book Blog

October 2, 2009 [Update: Matt Flannery, CEO and Co-Founder of Kiva, replied to this post as a guest blogger. Kiva has also changed its site, and I have blogged more .] http://blogs.cgdev.org/open_book/2009/10/kiva-is-not-quite-what-it-seems.php
http://techcrunch.com/2009/07/03/the-inevitable-anti-us-backlash-has-started-on-kiva/

The Inevitable Anti-U.S. Backlash Has Started On Kiva

When we reported on Kiva.org’s decision to open up its micro-lending platform to U.S. entrepreneurs, Kiva CEO Premal Shah told us he was concerned about backlash in the community.
Courtesy Opportunity International A new children's book tells the story of what happens when a young boy living in Ghana in West Africa borrows a few coins from his village's collective fund. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=87930121

Child&#039;s &#039;One Hen&#039; Lays Microlending Success

This Friday, PBS NOW's Enterprising Ideas series puts microfinance under the microscope in an episode about the Mexican company Compartamos.

Microfinance: PBS NOW on When Good Microcredit Goes Bad

http://greenskeptic.blogspot.com/2007/09/microfinance-pbs-now-on-when-good.html
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Beware of Bad Microcredit

Grameen-Banking for the poor

http://www.grameen-info.org/ GB At a Glance Grameen Bank Project was born in the village of Jobra, Bangladesh, in 1976.